Month: April 2015

  • CLASP – Walking Out of Darkness

    I’m going to Walk Out of Darkness on 16th May 2015 in memory of Karla Mihok. If you’d like to donate and sponsor me (and the hubby, who is joining!) please click here. I’ve been wanting to write this since it happened, but it’s been difficult for me to pull my thoughts together until now,…

  • Blinds, beds, and books, oh my!

    Friday marked 4 weeks in the new abode! It went quick didn’t it? Today marks the day we get the last of the big stuff done – blinds fitted and our new bed delivered! It’s weird how much a lack of blinds or any window treatments can affect how settled you feel. I’m already feeling…

  • Error: Motivation not found

    Moving is stressful, I know this. I didn’t expect this time to be quite as stressful as it has been, though. It’s been almost as bad as my move from the US to the UK. The differences are marginal at best. The last one, into our rental, was easy peasy. I guess I expected the…

  • 10 years on…

    Today marks 10 years since I left the US to live in the UK. A whole decade. Just under a third of my life. Incredible. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, what the last 10 years has been for me, and I’m still undecided. The problem is that it’s been so many things. I…

  • It’s been a long road

    Getting from there to here… (I have to apologise, we have been watching Star Trek: Enterprise and I always have the song stuck in my head! Fitting though…) Anywho! We’re in!!!! We got the keys, as planned, on 27th March 2015. We’ve spent nearly every day since then (about a week and a half now)…